Chapter 61.3- One Thousand Hands

People just kept falling, and strangely enough it seemed that some of the people who fell would rise again seemingly at random. It was just chaos. People would fall. Some would rise, and the rest would remain down on the floor shivering. Shivering like they were freezing. Tsubasa leaned down towards his twin sister and after shaking her produced no results, he reached up to feel hr forehead with the back of his hand. The only issue with that was that the second he touched her, he froze as well, falling face first a second later.

“Don’t touch them” Kitsuchi found himself screaming at the top of his lungs. But it was too little and too late. People all around them were already reaching down to help their comrades and where skin touched, they fell to the floor in a matter of seconds. It was pure chaos, and then to make it a dozen times worse, there was a rain of kunai from the skies around them.

“Take cover” he shouted, shrouding his arms in earth release chakra and bracing for the attack. Only for none of the kunai to fall upon him. The sun had disappeared for a few seconds until he opened his eyes to see that a massive earth dome had covered their entire army. Takeshi had his hands shoved in the ground, not even straining with the cost that came with a jutsu that massive. Their reprieve was short as the sound of cracking echoed within the dome for a second before it was cleaved in two. Above it was a woman— a girl, really. Younger than he was, and with a smug smirk on her face. In her hand was a war fan that crackled with lightning release. She was the one that had cut the dome open.

Two shinobi, chunin he could tell from their vests, jumped at her as she fell downwards. It was a blur of motion. But the results were visible for all to see. She landed right in front of Takeshi and to her side fell two bodies— the chunin that had jumped at her.

“Heyl, Iwa shinobi san. Please do me a favour and make this interesting.” She said with a smirk, red eyes spinning aggressively. He snapped his head to the side. That was the sharingan. And in that second, she had closed the distance between herself and Takeshi, almost cutting his head in one swipe and forcing him to block with an earth gauntlet.

Kitsuchi’s problems were compounded as even more kunai fell upon them. This time without the dome to shield them. As they blocked the kunai from above, they were set upon by Konoha shinobi that peeled out from the treeline, from the shadows, from thin air, from everywhere.